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Overview

Marianne Hester is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their research is primarily situated within the social sciences, with a focus on health, sociology and political science, clinical psychology, gender studies, and general health professions.

The main topics of their work include intimate partner and family violence, sexual assault and victimization studies, homicide, infanticide, and child abuse, child abuse and trauma, migration, health and trauma, gender, security, and conflict, as well as sex work and related issues.

Hester has published research in several academic venues, with a concentration of publications in the Journal of Gender-Based Violence, as well as contributions to Social Sciences, Violence Against Women, Journal of Academic Ethics, and Psychosocial Intervention.

Frequent co-authors in Hester's collaborations include Nadia Aghtaie, Natasha Mulvihill, Sarah-Jane Walker, Berta Vall, and Hilary Abrahams.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Hester include:

  • Secondary Trauma: Emotional Safety in Sensitive Research, 2020, Journal of Academic Ethics
  • Methodological Challenges in Group-based Randomised Controlled Trials for Intimate Partner Violence Perpetrators: A Meta-summary, 2023, Psychosocial Intervention
  • Criminal justice responses to domestic violence and abuse in England: an analysis of case attrition and inequalities using police data, 2021, Policing & Society
  • The Current Landscape of Prostitution and Sex Work in England and Wales, 2020, Sexuality & Culture
  • No longer a civil matter? The design and use of protection orders for domestic violence in England and Wales, 2020, Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law

Best Publications

  • Coercive Control: Update and Review:

    Evan Stark;Marianne Hester

  • The Three Planet Model: Towards an Understanding of Contradictions in Approaches to Women and Children's Safety in Contexts of Domestic Violence

    Marianne Hester

  • Women, violence, and male power : feminist activism, research, and practice

    Marianne Hester;Liz Kelly;Jill Radford

  • Mothering Through Domestic Violence

    Lorraine Radford;Marianne Hester

  • Tackling Domestic Violence: Effective Interventions and Approaches

    Marianne Hester;Nicole Westmarland

  • Tackling Street Prostitution: Towards An Holistic Approach

    M Hester;MN Westmarland

  • Who does what to whom? Gender and domestic violence perpetrators in English police records.

    Marianne Hester

  • Making it through the Criminal Justice System: Attrition and Domestic Violence

    Marianne Hester

  • Making an Impact - Children and Domestic Violence: A Reader

    Marianne Hester;Chris Pearson;Nicola Harwin

  • Violent Men as Good-enough Fathers? A Look at England and Sweden

    Maria Eriksson;Marianne Hester

  • Domestic violence and child contact arrangements in England and Denmark

    M Hester;L Radford

  • Forced marriage in the UK: Religious, cultural, economic or state violence?

    Khatidja Chantler;Geetanjali Gangoli;Marianne Hester

  • More than support to court: rape victims and specialist sexual violence services

    Marianne Hester;Sarah-Jane Lilley

  • Women, violence and male power

    M Hester;L Kelly;J Radford

  • IMPRoving Outcomes for children exposed to domestic ViolencE (IMPROVE): an evidence synthesis

    Emma Howarth;Emma Howarth;Theresa H M Moore;Theresa H M Moore;Nicky J Welton;Natalia Lewis

  • ) ‘Forced marriage: the risk factors and the effect of raising the minimum age for a sponsor, and of leave to enter the UK as a spouse or fiancé(e)

    Marianne Hester;Chantler Khatidja;Geetanjali Gangoli

  • Secondary Trauma: Emotional Safety in Sensitive Research

    Emma Williamson;Alison Gregory;Hilary Abrahams;Nadia Aghtaie

  • Interventions to Improve the Response of Professionals to Children Exposed to Domestic Violence and Abuse: A Systematic Review.

    William Turner;Marianne Hester;Jonathan Broad;Eszter Szilassy

  • Domestic Violence and Sexuality: What's Love Got To Do with It?

    Catherine Donovan;Marianne Hester

  • Occurrence and impact of negative behaviour, including domestic violence and abuse, in men attending UK primary care health clinics: a cross-sectional survey.

    M. Hester;Giulia Ferrari;S. K. Jones;E. Williamson

  • Witchcraft in early modern Europe : studies in culture and belief

    Jonathan Barry;Marianne Hester;Gareth Roberts

  • Femicide: The Politics of Women Killing

    Marianne Hester

Frequent Co-Authors

Harriet L. MacMillan
Harriet L. MacMillan McMaster University
Karen Devries
Karen Devries London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Louise M. Howard
Louise M. Howard King's College London
Erica Burman
Erica Burman University of Manchester

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